Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-05-28

vi ,ne orar est OF men TO battle against, that
direst ct scourge- and most luscrutibie ot
mysteries, the sickness Of the sea.
IL would be safe to record about one week
of my voyage to Cuba as being period OF
dreadful blank IL Is possible that such expe-
rienCes arr neeisi Ia humble man. IL so,
one should figure on things ~ as TO be hum
bled that waN only once But after what
one might term a partial restoration 10 con
sciouSneS> there was much OF true interest
about me
The captain. who, 10 do him credit, had
underneath his prepoSterou>ly mean nature
some hits Of warmth and geniaItv and an
occasional rev velation Of colossal humor. gave
me the half Of h!S own berth, which stood IN
the side Of another little six foot cabin al the
rear Of where We ate This cumpar, ,ment
was a queer place The walls were filled with
pictures of SEA fights and many worse than
those pasted against the partitions and
CLOSED over with VsInish. The carpet, Whose
ZgZag pattern was obliterated with grease
and tar had been woven on an Old oak loom
up at EastpOrt by our captains grandmother
along about the time when the EnterprIS
took iu the Boxer and the Constitution cap
turei the Guerriere i'll PORTLAND and Boston
harbors. The old hair lounge yawned and
rreaked with the ceaseleSs movement OF the
vessel and nobody had the heart to burden IT
further At the head Of the bed stood the
softly ticking ships chronometer Against
the center of the forward partition was lit
tie desk where the captain studied his courses,
his logarithms and charts, and figured his
"reckoningS" and his gains; and over this,
Law and night, swung very smoky lamp.
Before this, as before a midnight shrine,
shall ever remember our captain; for, OF Wild
nights and almost all nights for that
matter, clad only in drawers, undershirt, u
sou'wester hat and rubber shoes he roamed
about this mite Of den like Gagged bear or
snorted and sputtered at his desk, scratching
ami creaking on all old slate with fiinty
pencil, and swearing the most terrible oath.
one ever heard, as If TO keep himself agrea'-
bic company At these times an old briir
root pipe stood out sidewise from his scraRgy
jaw And he pulled. putfed, pulled. For
certain reasons l am patient with those who
love tobacco. But the grade of our captains
tobacco, the age Of that brisr root pipe, the
condensed and recondensed sections of that
smoke which could have been caught, spliced,
twisted and hung up TO dry, We're something
undoubtedly worse than Virgil and Dante
encountered in the tenth gulf of old Lccifer's
,,r,;n;ons
Tn. ola salt too resented anybody sleep
ING The more sn..zed and strangled the
nor, ba nufyad Toyarv this A. would veil
ont all sorts of Wild old ballads, Snort, puff.
sna..za for a few minutes Tb.n-
~. u,,..,,a %, p,,,,,.,,, A.. lords an, ...
n,,;r.s Too
Consider we'll whs, ,o,,'r,. about. and what you
mean 10 do;
You're now al war with Yankees, and you VIII
rue the day
That you rousea 'he sous Vi hoef'y -Nf'n
swear pun 'iior'' Ahu 'neh:
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pass 'ahe 'sii
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Conid s,y I'm. tsrs If Frspe- 80 neat snd
handy, q,
But they never found their match till the Yankee
gave them catch,
For the Yankee boys for hchtine are the osn-
dies' y.
linen this oia sea dragon "ouih take a
whiri around the niue CABIN III 'front.' uhth
he mad stIreh up the urea mates ahh Tue
'ook' anu tnes Woulu rise up III .ne aa' Nii'SS
OF their h''ie n,'ns caves, anu mummy ash'
bes ther anythihs wah'ih' SIR Wheh ne
wouid oeii"" at .heih 'he inquiry why IN tne